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ednited:
Yeah, that is what I meant. They look like us, not that we look like them.


Ever heard of Ge'ez language?

History supports the "back to Africa" theory through finding's in present Afro-asiatic peoples, Malagasy, the capoids & some Nilo-saharans of the significant Neanderthal & Dravidian genes similar to the people from out of Africa so your observations might have some truth behind them.

Jonraid:
I guess this is debatable.He is the god of thunder after all.I think it all lies down on how you interpret this 'god'

In the Comics he is a 'god' as many civilisations look at the Asgardians for the maintenance of the universe.Remember when the dwarf asked him where they were when Thanos was running the show all over.''You were supposed to help us'' the Dwarf Blacksmith said something like this. Of course he is not an actual 'God' but he is one of the most badass beings in the MCU universe,actually the most badass to many.This grand superiority and abilities is what makes him a god or a demigod for that matter!

It is for this reason that you'll find many refer to him as a 'god'.

He is an elite coming from a powerful tribe! What a 'god' means in the MCU is a bit different from what we think God means! And lastly the writers can make Captain America beat Hulk,but this shouldn't be a reference that Captain America can really beat Hulk! He can't! Even Hulk can't beat Hulk!

Yes he has numerous abilities that make him op but canonically marvel tier's god way above skyfathers & Thor only has two comic versions of him that are at or above skyfather level, old king Thor (skyfather-tier) & rune King Thor (universal-tier) the rest are titan to cosmic-tier & its understandable why low tier beings would refer to Thor as a god but that shouldn't merit him as one, superman is normally depicted as a merely cosmic-tier being but if you watch batman vs superman most of the humans even lex Luther & batman both with intelligent scientific minds are trying to prove he isn't a god.

If you want an idea on what marvel considers as a god check out fulcrum & the one above all.

https://googleweblight.com/i?u=https://comicvine.gamespot.com/one-above-all/4005-44473/&hl=en-KE

Just30:
What school did you attend again ?

You have proper analytical skills

Thanks, am still in school, Kenyatta university, not the best place but it'll do for now.

Jonraid:
Marvel know him as a god.He is the god of thunder! I hope this video will be an alibi for my claim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49m1ro-Lnj0?t=114

Watch all the three movie entries of Thor, you'll realize a scene where Odin, Thor's father & the most powerful asgardian to ever live explains why they're not gods, at reddit someone else also observed this: In Thor 2 the dark world, When Loki told his father that he wants to rule earth as a god like him, Odin’s response was

"We are not gods! We're born, we live, we die, just as humans do."

Try & understand asgardians have a superiority complex & others like Hela & Loki are drowning in it they dream & wish they were god's, even in infinity war despite thanos being vastly more powerful Loki still doesn't consider him a god so...

mtisTheQubit:
Truth be said DC doesn't suck in movies..there is nothing new here..thus why Marvel is making billions from recent releases unlike the DC world...lemme give you an example of DC shoddiness..Did you expect batman to win while fighting superman..serious thats just lame..my thoughts though

True

Danielnino00:
Batman vs superman dawn of justice is one of the worst movie I ever watched...

And it ran for 3 hours!

It's third act was poorly executed & the Martha scene was pure comedy, the movie had potential but they ruined it trying to mix up a lot of things together but the movie was aimed at comic fans not the regular movie lover so...

Jonraid:
Bucky is a great when it comes to hand to hand combat.You got admire T'challa for beating him up without his suit!Obviously the magic shaped herb
that he took props up his abilities even without his suit!

True... I was referring to the captain America 2nd movie it had some of the best fight scenes to date.

Jonraid:
Thor is a god.Manifest lies you are making! https://www.quora.com/Is-Thor-an-actual-god

Norse Thor is a god, Marvel's Thor is an alien, try & understand what I wrote before you jump into conclusions about my statements also how is quora any good a source in this discussion?

Jonraid:
But why would a 'god' care if his family is gone?

Thor's no god at least Marvel's version of him, he's one of the most powerful beings from a type 3 civilization, just a mere advanced alien from an advanced alien society, his sudden change in personality would've been ok if only the directors from the first Thor film didn't show him to be more emotionally capable than what he was in ragnarok, I think for a film to work people should be able to relate, look at DC's wonder woman she's powerful but women can still relate to her inner struggles, superman an alien from a type 2 civilization in man of steel still has a lot in common with a typical human, though I can't deny their aren't characters that marvel has done marvelous with in that regard such as tony stark, captain america, spiderman, Logan, & T'challa the only problem I have is all this characters are already human.

Jonraid:
It was a classic,it's something that I grew up watching. Look at this excerpt of Black panther moves-Marvel knows how to bring this characters in real life.Marvel production capabilities are second to none! Don't tell me you didn't love the triple kick at 1:58 . This is where Marvel beats DC, the nitty-gritty details of the superhero's moves and abilities in real life!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_5v-TMNhx4?t=119

Justice league didn't do justice to the characters, it was rushed with over 50 minutes worthy scenes missing & the director's poor decisions for the film just ruined the built up dark theme DC had going for it, if you want better marvel fight scenes I recommend the winter soldier, civil war was made with the purpose of competing with BvS & here marvel clearly wins due to their stronger third act, but did you watch the warehouse action scene in batman vs superman, how was it? If you want movies that actually represent superheroes in this reality I recommend man of steel, the dark Knight trilogy though I like how marvel has better & more visible scenes, their characters are still more artificial in comparison, take a look at Thor in ragnarok he lost his friends, family, home yet he was just making jokes all the while, nothing was serious to him.

NairobiWalker:
I'm talking of X-Men Movie, not movies by members of X-Men. Anyway, movies are about taste - there are people out there who would take a Mexican soap opera over Game of Thrones. You can't really force something on someone.

True, but I get what you see in marvel.

forgiveness:
Your people lied your GDP was mineral resources free but the truth has been revealed. That's the point.

Then the truth was needless here since no Nation completely lacks mineral resources, but believe me, I don't doubt you & many others here needed help to decipher what they were implying.

forgiveness:
Minerals has also aided Kenya.

Which 21st century country has not been aided by minerals? you think there is a city built that hasn't used minerals, concrete, steel etc, for its roads, buildings etc? Or what are you trying to imply? Stop being vague when comparing countries

NairobiWalker:
Ragnarok and Deadpool are good movies. So you name most of Marvel movies and still say other than?

Can Aquaman beat X-Men? Have you watched Guardians of the Galaxy? In the last 10 years, give me one shitty movie from Marvel.

Are you fcking serious ? within the xmen series only Logan & days of the future past are worth mentioning the rest are no challenge for aquaman, gotg was good but the ending (esp the dance off) was really dumb, in the last 10 years, easy, the amazing spiderman 2, Thor the dark world, avengers age of ultron, any & all of the xmen movies except (Logan & Dotfp), fantastic four & many more were all garbage.

NairobiWalker:
Lost soul. Other than Batman, DC movies suck in comparison to Marvel.

Acha za ovyo man DC huwezi compare na izo matope mnataja APA, sa other than the spider-man trilogy & ironman trilogy, maybe infinity war which other movies do you consider better than the DC entries besides suicide squad, justice league, batman & robin, cat woman that I agree are all pure garbage, which one? Or your idea of not sucking are those dumb cringe worthy sidewalk comedy films like ragnarok, gotg & deadpool ?

Jonraid:
A typical DC fan.Nothing much from DC apart from Justice League. Loved it when I was little but I got to say that Marvel is more futuristic and more creative. Aquaman was great but you just can't compare it to Logan or the Avengers Infinity War!

Really justice league? The dark Knight was legendary, Heath ledger's performance as the joker was unparalleled & you want to compare that masterpiece with what Logan? I've read marvel comics before am not a hater & I love Hugh Jackmans portrayal of wolverine but you simply can't compare against Nolan's vision.

mtisTheQubit:
For series i go Dc but for movies Marvel forever

What?
Marvel movies are just not that engaging enough, (very predictable, low stakes, etc), when you compare their visuals they can't reach Snyder's level in man of steel, when you try to compare the film scripts Nolan's dark Knight trilogy beats anything marvel has put up so far, if you compare the basics, Marvel's first, second & third acts are always average while DC movies have great first & second acts with only their third acts being pathetically weak with dumb CGI monstrosities battling it out.

I think you're confusing the DC omniverse with the dceu & are thus unfairly comparing the dceu with only the phase one movies coming out against marvel that has released a lot of movies & are now almost in their fourth phase, if you're not then your idea of good movies is wanting.

Jonraid:
Liked Aquaman movie but DC is dogshite when compared to Marvel.Sorry for DC fans,it's just the truth!

No offence to your opinion but you clearly lack taste, marvel is barely trying if you're only considering movies, DC is the shi@ holistically from the comics, animations, tv series... you simply can't compare the Lucifer comic series to anything marvel has done to date.

Sgbate:
I kinda find most SA colour arts similar to those of Fulani here in northern nigeria

Most South Africans with the exception of the capoids & some Indo-europeans fall under the Niger-congo group similar to the Fulani so the cultural affinities are evident throughout this group.

AskiaHarem:
(Nigerian)West African Civilization and Culture... Kenyans and South Africans where y'all at?

Stupid, stop embarrassing yourself, do you even know what a civilization is? Stop confusing a state, empire with a civilization even the long thought literate societies aren't accurate representations of true civilizations According to the kardashev scale the whole human race isn't even a type one civilization.

Most of you here are illiterates or mediocre at best just annoyingly using words you don't even understand, besides the map is clearly lacking a lot of information, what's your source?

JaceBlaze:
Okay according to Darwin's theory of evolution and adaptation,humans evolved from monkeys yet we still have monkeys today who haven't evolved into humans.And with that said,I don't imply that Vendas and Tsonga are monkeys,all I'm saying is that they resisted change.

Pathetic, that's a very limited understanding of evolution. Old world monkeys together with new world monkeys evolved according to their different adaptations from a distant ancestor, humans didn't evolve from monkeys we evolved with them, also monkey is synonymous to primate so stop with the ignorance.

JaceBlaze:








I hear you

Good.
Sorry, I will try to minimize the useless examples next time.

JaceBlaze:
Could you elaborate this statement? I'm still confused even after reading it 5 times.

Genetics play an important role in our intelligence if you're a genius chances are you're gifted, hard work definitely plays a role but nothing beats talent.

rvp20183:
Of course genetics matters - but generally over such a large population as a race - the average really tend towards the 'human' average. Of course there will be a few really brilliant people from certain families or clans or sub-regions - but by the time its get to a billion black or white or asian - the average is the same. We tend to celebrate the outliers - forgetting everyone else cluster together. The same is true for all other human attributes - althelitcs, name it. Few bright sparks here and there - but everyone is really on the human average.

True the human average cuts across all "races", its just that some people here are trying to overlook the importance genetics play in distinguishing between people.

Also I know there is no such thing as races within the human race as it has been for the past 40,000 years with the end of other archaic species & science doesn't support the existence of races based on the resent adaptation of our melanin or color of our eyes, (Caucasian, Ethiopian, Mongoloid etc) if there is indeed races it can only be divided amongst sapien sapiens proper, Neanderthals & Dravidians but this two other groups only remain only in some groups of all shades with just negligible amounts of traceable DNA.

JaceBlaze:
Exactly!! some of the points you made here correlate with what I said earlier.The IQ tests are standardised according to the morden Western way of life,which means Africans are bound to perform dismally in such tests since Africa is still very much backward,Africans' reluctance to adopt the 21st century life (or whatever it is that is holding Africa back) is the reason for the low IQ,not genetics as some people always imply.Maybe in my original comment I should have stated explicitly that Africa needs to worry about physical development of the continent instead of some tests.Every race of men started somewhere.

Genetics isn't as fixed as you're implying, especially between races, its much more deep than that, imagine some kalenjins are good in long races does it imply all east Africans or even all kalenjins are naturally that good? you think there aren't a bunch of white people that score poorly in those tests? Genetics matter a lot in IQ results you can't have a Tesla from some low IQ inbred parents it just can't happen.

Science isn't to blame, people are, stop being fools & accept your failures, it's evident throughout the continent that something is lacking & if it isn't resources (minerals, population, etc) then my guess is as good as yours.

Also no one has forced Africans to take such tests, no one is stopping anyone from making their own IQ tests so stop complaining about bias.

Jonraid:
Quite possible but not wholly possible? Fair enough

As they say-Necessity is the mother of invention. The Bantu who lived in the African Savannah was quite comfortable with life,this is to say that he didn't need much innovations to better aspects of his/her life.Food was plentiful in the Savannah-he didn't think much about inventions such as irrigation to add more food stock.The weather was quite favorable-the need to build strong weather proof houses wasn't a concern,there was no snow or desert storms.There was no need for hot showers,no heating technology was needed .It is this kind of life that made us not think 'outside the box'

The environment made us who we are.We were also socialists in nature and religious.When Europeans separated the church from the statehood,they greatly made gains in science and tech.Read about the renaissance.In Europe we had the royal families and the noble men,educated men and the common men.This structure made them more capitalistic that they even thought of conquering distant lands to add more into their wants.

Africans couldn't come up with world changing ideas because of our diversity.We are so diverse.Our continent was so large.How could we communicate to even effectively share ideas in this large continent or even move about.In Africa,you'll have a small country like Kenya with 42 tribes,in UK you'll have the English,Scottish,the Irish and who else?

It is more like the tower of Babel,everyone speaks differently so that renders communication impossible! THE SHEER SIZE OF THE CONTINENT AND OUR DIVERSITY ARE ONE OF THE MAJOR FACTORS THAT MADE US LESS DEVELOPED IN TECHNOLOGY THAN EUROPEANS. We only have Eight major linguistic groups in Europe,large tribes enjoy large advantages.A piece of information that landed in Greece,would quickly reach the English group.You couldn't have this happening in Africa! Because this good innovation would have to bypass several languages and massive distances.

There are so many factors that make us have this 'low IQ' that everyone is talking about.However, you might say that you are more 'intelligent' than a bushman or a Khoisan but you probably won't survive if you were dropped inside the Kalahari or the Amazon simply because you aren't intelligent enough to survive in such an environment! You might have to rethink what intelligence really means and how to measure it effectively!

Bantu lives weren't lacking challenges that's why half the continent is marked by their presence, also the only reason you believe they didn't develop anything is due to their illiteracy just like much of the people living in Africa including the capoids/bushmen/Khoisan as they mostly use(d) oral history to pass on their advancements which is still a very effective way of teaching that's why we use it in our modern schools through teachers & lectures but the problem with it is any disturbances to the system wrecks it all apart & colonialism, tribalism, tropical illnesses, immigration, slavery didn't do much to help Africans out.

The environment truly made us who we are but diversity isn't to blame for our continental average low IQ, actually people who were cut off from the rest of humanity are worse off, just look at the Indian sentinels but I understand what you mean.

Jonraid:
People eat GDP in Nigeria!

Joseph Stiglitz, the Columbia University economist (a Nobel Prize laureate who once taught at the University of Nairobi), calls it GDP fetishism (probably for a lack of better word).

Google about 'GDP FETISHISM'

that explains it.

edon21:
Kenya s got tribalism with less than 20 groups. what lol happen if they were to hit 200 like Nigeria

https://googleweblight.com/i?u=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-ethnically-diverse-countries-in-the-world.html&hl=en-KE

Kenya is more ethnically diverse compared to Nigeria & to breed tribalism you only need two or more groups of people & something to fight about.

edon21:
Lagos enjoys higher GDP than Kenya though

Both Facebook's & Apple's GDP are higher than the two, you should first try to understand the difference between a city & a country before engaging people in irrelevant comparisons, just take south African cities cumulative GDP & compare with the whole national GDP you'll know how baseless your argument is.

Also how do you enjoy higher GDP?

Jonraid:
IQ tests or the concept itself is bullcrap.You just can't measure intelligence!

The concept is not "bull crap" & IQ tests are relative so I agree that most of them aren't up to standards but believe me, measuring intelligence is quite possible my friend.

ednited:
Has anyone tried the IQ tests??

I once heard on the radio that the Falashas ( Ethiopian Jews) had an IQ test and they were asked to eat a pasta for the test.

This is not fair! I mean almost all Africans has a bad record on IQ test and I've always wondered why. They say IQ test is dependent on the amount of food the exam receiver eats. They kinda let us beleive that Africa is doing bad on the test because of hunger. What type is this? ? ?

It's like testing us how Europeans we are than checking our brilliance. These whites are playing game

IQ tests vary depending on internal & external factors, proper nutrition acts by a factor of -+2, proper health (mental) by a factor of -+5, education/exposure also factors by -+5, cold weather factors by -+2, age also matters, genetics factor by -+5, self esteem by a difference of -+2 but all that doesn't matter if the test (classical) is done in an alien language or tampered for political reasons.

If you're thinking about taking an online IQ test I recommend the Mensa workouts. If you're in the 1-2 % IQ ranges of 132 and above then congratulations you are a genius, If you're in the ranges of 80 to 120 you're average if you're bellow the IQ of 70 you're legally a retard.